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Program Quotes by Alan Perlis
- There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
- I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
- It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting…
- To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
- You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can…
- Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
- If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
- Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
- In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
- A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
- It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
- It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
- Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
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